“Woodwork, metalwork, and technical drawing” are now called Design Technology and are one of the more popular choices at GCSE at my school. Just so everyone who comments on this is not assuming that … (View Post)

The main problem with only teaching what people need to know is who decides? https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-i-couldn39t-be-a-math-teacher An education that restricted itself to only the things… (View Post)

Lemons? I hope that’s not a typo… (View Post)

This is the most picturesque cricket ground I umpired a match on, back in my umpiring-the-under13s days. (View Post)

It will be interesting to see how many pupils end up transferring to the state system, and whether the cost of this was accounted for in the estimate of the money raised by the policy. Anecdotally we… (View Post)